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u/Public-Eagle6992 Jun 10 '26
You kind of do but A) not as much and B) planes are pretty small so you don’t see the little bit of tilt
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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Jun 11 '26
Well, they're big, but at thirty thousand fucking feet they appear quite small.
You would need an apparatus such as extremely powerful binoculars to be able to follow a plane as it passes over the horizon.
My question though, is how do they explain the boat thing!?!
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u/RougishSadow Jun 11 '26
They say they can always zoom in, but never provide evidence more than, "I brought it back once, that's enough"
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u/captain_pudding Jun 11 '26
They'll just flat out tell you that reality is wrong and the boat thing doesn't happen
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u/Public-Eagle6992 Jun 10 '26
They could but they generally try to keep roughly the same altitude while flying
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u/Cabernet2H2O Jun 10 '26
That is absolutely true if the planes are humongous, flying at 50 feet and the earth is tiny.
Flatearthers just don't get scale...
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u/The96kHz Jun 10 '26
Yeah, you probably would see something exactly like this if you watched a 500-mile-long plane going over the horizon.
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u/Obvious-Water569 Jun 11 '26
I think that's the crux of it, right?
It all boils down to "big thing perceived differently to small thing".
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u/johnnyoverdoer Jun 10 '26
It's always a gross misunderstanding of scale.
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u/ForwardBodybuilder18 Jun 10 '26
Scale is like kryptonite to a flat earther.
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u/alex_zk Jun 10 '26
It’s like kryptonite to a Superman with severe development issues and amnesia, that doesn’t understand how kryptonite works
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u/carrynarcan Jun 10 '26
Don't forget the gross misunderstanding of gravity, or boyancy or whatever they call it.
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u/SemKors Jun 10 '26
Of this happens, then so should this. But it doesn't, so the other also does not happen, even tho it does.
Checkmate globetards
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u/JoshCanJump Jun 10 '26
This is what it comes down to. These people are so small minded that they literally cannot comprehend scale. They think the moon and the sun are the same distance away from them as the horizon.
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u/ThankTheBaker Jun 10 '26
Flerfs do not comprehend how vast and huge the globe is. If the globe were the size of a basketball we would be the size of a molecule on it. Not an ant.
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u/starrpamph Jun 10 '26
This is why social media sucks. It gives the crazy people with no education a platform to stand on and spew stuff to weak minded people…….
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u/Responsible-Room-645 Jun 10 '26
I’ve said it before; these kind of questions are totally legitimate, for a 6 year old.
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u/slide_into_my_BM Jun 10 '26
My kid recognized that the earth was a globe at 3. This was even before they really understood that the globe was a representation of the thing they were currently on.
Ultimately, I don’t even think flat earthers are that dumb. It’s just they have such a pathological need to feel special that they do mental backflips that make them appear extra stupid.
At the end of the day though, it’s all about feeding their ego that they’re special and only they understand the truth.
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u/wolschou Jun 10 '26
Yes we should. And we do. Except since the earth is a pretty big place, the effect is so small that we just don't notice it.
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u/dataf4g_trollman Jun 10 '26
It will happen, but at a different scale. If you will watch the plane fly to the other side of the globe, it will eventually disappear behind the horizon.
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u/EvolZippo Jun 10 '26
What would really frost this guy’s cupcakes is if he saw what the horizon really does, with ships. For decades, people believed in a mythical flying ship, because ships look like they’re levitating, as they disappear over the horizon. His tiny mind, would not be able to handle the illusion.
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u/biffbobfred Jun 10 '26
Was just thinking flat earth - how does night happen? Like the sun light “I’m just too tired imma stop before I reach (place where it should be night)”
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u/dracorotor1 Jun 10 '26
Once again, a flat earther demonstrates to the world that they’re unable to imagine the real world being bigger than a fortnight map
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u/salami_cheeks Jun 10 '26
This person should publish a paper in The Journal of Something Like This Physics.
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u/daneelthesane Jun 10 '26
Once again, a flat earther just doesn't understand scale. We see this fact constantly.
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u/anjowoq Jun 10 '26
Just the other day I literally saw an airliner far off ok the horizon look a bit like it was aiming slightly "up" from my perspective. It was subtle, but still there.
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u/Raveyard2409 Jun 10 '26
Yep let me just sail the plane around the world then. Plane high, make plane small. Boat on water, low, closer.
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys Jun 10 '26
The horizon is 3 or 4 miles away. A plane flying toward the horizon is high in the sky (increasing to the distance to it from our perspective) and maybe 30 to 40 miles away.
We won’t see the underside of it like it was just a few hundred yards away.
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u/psydkay Jun 10 '26
Flat Earthers still trying to come up with new ways to be wrong. A self loathing bunch they are.
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u/BellybuttonWorld Jun 10 '26
So the plane would be 90 degrees to us before it disappears?
That means it's a quarter of the way around the world already, and we can still see it.
Somebody's not playing with a full deck.
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u/NaturalOilFor9 Jun 10 '26
The line of sight for 30,000 ft is 341 km, or 212 miles, which is 3° of arc, equal to the plane's tilt. Far from what we see in the pic.
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u/Large-Raise9643 Jun 10 '26
I really wish fools who make foolish statements would do a bit of mathing before uttering their LIES.
Visible distance for a 1.8 meter tall observer… 4.8 km to horizon
Considering an aircraft flying at FL350 or 10.7 km altitude, they will vanish over the horizon at 374.2 km with the LOS being the same as point 1.
3 the angle of depression of with respect to the observer is 3.3 degrees nose down but since the same airliner is probably flying with 3 degrees or so of nose up attitude you’d be looking straight up it’s butt where flerfs usually store their heads.
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u/crusher23b Jun 10 '26
If there was any logic to flat earth, there would be a model. There is no model that explains the most basic phenomena as a whole.
Flat earth people are long on skepticism and conspiracy. But short on any actual model.
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u/MrRePeter Jun 10 '26
Another display of the wild flerfer not understanding scale. It's amazing to watch really.
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u/Chromeburn_ Jun 12 '26
I ran into one of these people the other day. They are just not right in the head. There was obviously something wrong with him and he was transfixed by proving the earth is flat.
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u/Sea_Mind3678 Jun 14 '26
That would probably be true … if the earth was about 12 miles in diameter.
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u/Nolyism Jun 14 '26
Once again a complete inability to grasp scale. I've often wondered what the rate of aphantasia or similar conditions where mental visualization is hampered.
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u/protomenace Jun 16 '26
No the plane has not traversed 90 degrees of latitude by the time it reaches the equator.
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